… for many centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the United States. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause of much agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, other groups…

… Robert Bolt, the female characters are all restricted to the role as wife, mother and lover. Bolt constructs them as being constricted and disempowered, but also as being strong, intelligent women, showing that he does not endorse the idea of…

… riddles with elegant solutions." - Vladimir Nabokov While it can be argued that Nabokov's work is rich in ideas, his description of his writing as a work of interwoven riddles is accurate as a report of Nabokov's unique work, Pale Fire. It…

… Australian and living in an Australian society. All my previous experiences- whether they be books I have read, films I have viewed, advertisements I have listened to or watched, people I have talked to, experiences I have encountered on my travels,…

… and Amada Wingfield of The Glass Menagerie share many comparable traits, but at the same time they are different in some ways. Both Willy and Amanda live in fantasy worlds. They both wish they could revel in the past and what used to be.…

… on the outcome of one man's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge…

… work of American fiction. The story of the novel teaches us many lessons that should last any reader for a lifetime. The messages that Harper Lee relays to the reader are exemplified throughout the book using various methods. One of the most important…

… Even though it has only been popular in the United States for the past 30 years, soccer has been a long time favorite for almost everywhere else. The sport dates back to the Egyptians, who played games involving the kicking of a ball. Now, the sport…

… to position readers to see that society is destined to failure because of the defects of human nature. He has done this through the characters in the story and their response to certain events. The 2 boys Ralph and Jack represent the two sides…

… faults and vices. The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde is a social satire, using irony and paradoxes to insinuate the problems and faults found in the Victorian society. The Importance of Being Earnest is set in the late Victorian…